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What lenses do you use and why, especially older adapted ones

Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:27 am

Hi there, its been awhile, but with the recent article on cameras it seems there's quite a few of you out there and so I'd like to know what you guys like to use and why! To start with, I have been using a ZM C Sonnar 50/1.5 on an A7R2, and I've seemingly made it my favourite lens even though its manual and adapted. I'd attribute the reasons as to why being that I love the process of using it on this mirrorless system, and the lovely images that it captures, kind of like how it has mood built-in instead of too-clean images that one post processes to convey what they want (or sometimes, too sharp making people look unflattering, requiring extra smoothing after)
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Re: What lenses do you use and why, especially older adapted ones

Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:52 am

Right now, just a few. But over the last few years, quite a few. Right now, I use the Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 50/1.4 Amazing rendering on the lens. Other 50's I have loved are the Zeiss Contax/Yashica 50/1.4 and the Leica/Leitz Summicron-R 50/2. Totally different rendering between all three. I also really enjoyed the Minolta 35-70/3.5, which is a bit of a legend. I also used the Yashica YUS trio of the 28/2.8, 135/2.8, and 75-150/3.9. Very fun lenses.

I don't know if it counts as adapting, but the Minolta Maxxum 100/2 is my all-time favorite lens. Amazing rendering. Love it more than any 85mm for portraiture. It is so flattering.
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Re: What lenses do you use and why, especially older adapted ones

Thu Sep 27, 2018 3:33 am

That is my topic! :-D

On my Fujifilm with metabones speedbooster I use:

- Minolta MD (IV) 50mm 1.4 - amazing rendering, easy to focus, vinieting
- Super Takumar 50mm 1.4 (8 element) - amazing built quality(!), VERY sharp even wide open, glow of bright unsharp elements
- Meyer Gorlitz Optik Trioplan 100mm 2.8 - Best portrait lens ever made, bubble bokeh, sharp but not too sharp
- Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 35mm 2.4 - Best 35mm lens, amazing rendering, focuses super close
- Piesker Picon 135mm 2.8 - very rare, Trioplan on steroids (also triplet lens)
- Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm 1.5 - true art lens with biotar swirl, sharp in the center
- Macro Takumar 50mm 4.0 - macro 1:1, very sharp
- Meyer Gorlitz Optik 250mm 5.5 - small and quite ok

I have like 20 more lenses but these are my top pick.
Usually I use 50mm lenses and 75-100mm for portraits.

Couple years ago I bought Mitakon speedmaster 25mm 0.95 for my Olympus Pen-f and even thou I owned like most of Oly primes I used Mitakon 99% of the time. Now I'm faster at composing and focusing at the same time with manual lens than using AF lenses. Oh and I have 2 small kids that are always in the move. I always shoot in single mode.

TIP: with manual lenses always focus lens from infinity.

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